melioration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: melioration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for melioration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
melioration n the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn: amelioration, melioration, betterment] a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement" Synonym(s): improvement, melioration Antonym(s): declination, decline the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Melioration \Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.] The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. --Bacon.